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A GREAT CRASH AT NIAGARA

That portion of the rugged bank
nearest the Horseshoe Falls on the
Canadian side. known as" Upper Ia
BILE Rock" fell at midnight, January
Is, with a deafening crash that was
heard and the conclusion felt for q
mile away Thousands of tons of
solid rock fell to the gorge below,
and with it hundreds of tons of ice.
The exact position Of the break is
between the Prospect House and the
great Horseshoe Falls. just bove
the old Table Rock and next to the
spiral stairway leading to the path
behind the sheet Of water. 1t was
only by miracle that the stairway
was not demolished. The govern
ment iron railing for over one hum
bred and fifty feet was carried away.
1t is at this very spot nearly all the
visitors stand and get that inspiring
view. Had this fall ofrock occurred
in the daytime undoubtedly heavy
loss of life would have occurred.
The formation of the ice is row en-
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Country Life.

"No city life for me-" said a Yer
mont farmer, "Gimme the country
an abeout hundred acres o. land
an i IN satisfied"
"Have to get up pretty early in
the morning, eh Z"
mot very 3 o'clock in summer
an 4 in winter"
"Well, what do you do evenings ?"
"D'ye mean arter it gifts tew dark
ter work 2"
eyes"
"B'gosh, go ter bed"
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Smarter Than His Father.

"Little boy, do you understand
what is meant by energy and enter
prise?"
"No, pa, / don't think do"
"Well, / will tell you; that one of
the richest men came here without a
shirt to his back, and now he has
got millions"
millions How many does he put
on at time, pa?"
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The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1887-10-08
OSTRACISED BY DISEASE.
A Farmer is Attacked by Chambers and
His NeighbOrs Shm Him.

COLUMBUS, o., September 29.-The
annual session of the State Board of
Health in this city brought to light
the existence Of peculiar disease at
Ada, in this State
James Lesley, farmer, about six
months ago noticed small sore
coming on his cheek. 1t became
more serious in spite of treatment,
and in a few weeks assumed ma
lignant form and began eating away
the bones of his nose. Local physi-
clans pronounced it CHAMBERS, and
said he had caught the disease from
a horse and that the disease was ia
tai and very contagious.
The effect of this was to complete
ly ostracise Lesley, even his Gown
kinsfolk DESERVING him. No leper in
olden time was ever so completely
cast out. So.fearful of contagion are
the neighbors that Lesley cannot
dispose Of his home, although willing
to sell at half price. Lesley has
thus been driven to appeal to the
Board of Health for an opinion that
will, as he hopes, set aside the fears
entertained by his neighbors. The
Board has sent an agent to investigate
the case.
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established tribunal for trying
suits against the Government in
stead of erowding them into the
hands of the lobbyists.
1t was a democratic Congress that
repealed the tenure of office act en-
acted by republican Congress for
partisan purposes in violation Of the
Constitution.
1t was democratic Congress that
restored to the domain 100000
acres of land granted to railroad cor
porations by the republican party
and unearned.
1t was q democratic Congress that
passed a resolution to investigate
the Pacific railroad, which has al
ready compelled the road to arrange
for the payment of both principal
and interest on the government
bonds.
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the variety Of subjects about which
the farmers need to come together
and exchange views and relate ex-
perience.
We do not profess to have any
practical knowledge of farming, but
there are some general, fundamental
principles TO which, it seems to us,
the farmers Of Monongalia need to
recur. We think, for example, the
matter Of raising a greater variety
of crops than is customary, ought to
be discussed and put into practice.
We claim no originality for the ar
guments that are advanced in sup
port of this policy among farmers,
but they seem to us to be conclu-
sive.
In the first place, by diversity
of production the farmer lessons the
possibility Of loss by failure of crops,
the chances of drought, the failure
Of fruit, and above all he secures in
dependence as far as poor human
nature can, against the losses and
accidents, the winds and storms and
other natural causes.
Nature, likewise, favors, and even
demands, constant change in crops,
seed, trees and heritage. If wheat,
corn, cotton, tobacco, or any other
product, is sown or planted for sue
cessive years, the land is exhausted,
and does not yield to the farmer full
reward for his industry, and it is TO
tation of crops, or the discovery of
new crops that must restore again
the wasted lands. Therefore it is
that our farmers ought to constantly
study to diversity their employments
and to add to the number of their
employments-not only for the good
of the land, but because no farmer is
justified in combining his labor to the
production of single crop, which
may be ruined by the weather or
other cause.
In another place we have tried to
demonstrate that farmers are the
class most interested in good public
roads.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1887-10-08
1t Pays.

When the F. M. & P. railroad was
finished the wise heads were asking,
sswhat for?o
"What is the use Of railroad"
they exclaimed, ''to run between
Fairmont and Morgantown?'
And for some months after it was
finished there did seem to be but
little use for the F. M. d P. railroad.
On all hands we heard that it was
being run at an expense of a consid-
cradle sum above the income
Now, however, we hear it said by
good authority, that the F. M. q p.
is paying better than any other %
miles of road in the State of West
Virginia 1t does pay to build rail
roads into the hills and valleys OF
our mountain State. If there is no
business for the road when built it
does not take long to dig business
out of the ground; for in almost
every acre of our land where we can
stick a pick, there is something for
a railroad to haul.
So we hear it said that one cause
of the failure of. the Black Bottle
was the discovery Though made
late in the game) that there was no
use for the road when it should be
completed. Let not the wiseacres
be, deceived about this. There is a
bigger business for a railroad up
Decker's creek than for any other
short road in the State
And the time is coming very soon
when the Black Bottle enterprise
will boom with all it's old time en-
ergy, and develop business that
will be the making of Morgantown.
Put that statement in your pipes.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1887-10-08
FORTY.TWO MILLION
Bushels of Coal Shipped From
the Kanawha Valley last
Year.
State Journal.

A statistical report recently made
at the U. S. Engineers office in
Charleston of the amount of coal
shipped from mines on the Great
Kanawha during the past year is a
very gratifying one, showing a de-
cided increase in the business both
by river and by railroad. The state
ment was compiled to accompany
the annual report of Mr.. A. NJ. Scott,
resident engineer of the Great Kama
wha improvement, Col. VIM. p.
Craighill, the officer in charge.
1t was derived like the Great Kama
wha coal statements for several years
past, as published in the annual re-
ports Of the Chief of Engineers from
statistics furnished TO the U. s. En-
gineer's Office from every coal mine in
the valley, and is regarded as &C
curate 1t shows that the total
amount shipped from the valley, be-
low the falls, during the year ending
June, 1887, was 1884 7o bushels
went out by river and 19,l60,S96 by
rail.
The report for the year before, be
ing to June, 1886, which was the
largest up to that time, showed the
total shipment for that year to be
31,Sl5,35S bushels, of which 1856,
613 was by river, and 1888, 745 by
rail.
1t appears that, during the past
year, the output of coal on the Great
Kanawha river has increased fully
33 per cent. over any previous year
Over l04 million bushels more Goa
were shipped than in any year be
fore.
1t will be noticed, too, that this
increase is about equally divided be
tween the shipments by river and by
railroad.
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T.etitbe Remembered.

1t was q Democratic Congress
that passed the arrearage pension
bill.
1t was democratic Congress that
passed the interstate commerce law.
1t was a democratic Congress that
enacted a law to pension the veter-
ans of the Mexican war.
1t was democratic Congress that
enacted a law prohibiting the con-
tract of alien labor
1t was democratic Congress that
enacted law permitting the incor-
poration of trade unions.
1t was democratic Congress that
enacted law providing for the re-
demption Of the trade dollar.
1t was a democratic Congress that
enacted law for the protection of
American fishermen.
It was democratic Congress that
enacted a law preventing the en-
ployment of convict labor by Federal
officers.
1t was a democratic Congress that
forever settled the electoral count
business by giving to each State
power to say for whom its vote shall
be cast
1t was a democratic Congress that
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1887-10-08
Give Them a Chance.

That is to to say, your lungs.
Also all your breathing machinery.
Very wonderful machinery it is.
Not only the larger air-passages, but
the thousand little tubes and cavi-
ties leading from them.
When these are clogged and chok-
ed with matter which ought not to
be there, your lungs cannot half do
their work. And what they do they
cannot do well.
Call it cold, cough, Group, pneu-
monia catarrh, consumption or any
of the family of throat and nose and
head and lung distractions. all are
bad. All ought to be got rid of.
There is just one sure way to get
rid of them. That is to take Bos-
chee's German Syrup, which any
druggist will sell you at rs cents a
bottle. Even if everything else has
failed you, you may depend upon
this for certain.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1887-10-08

life. The people are generally quiet
and peaceable, treat strangers with
hospitality and friendliness, and
know haw to make them feel at home
The newspapers, the Post and NEW
DOMINION, are well patronized and are
leaders in thought and politics in
the State. The writer has found the
ties of the fraternity peculiarly
pleasant and indissoluble, and ap-
preciates the good will of Messrs.
Hoffman and Fleming In the post
office, Mr.. Nye, formerly engaged in
business in Martinsbnrg, rules SUI
preme. He is respected and esteem
ed by everybody here. Morgantown
has in Mr.. R. Z. Fast, one of the
youngest and ablest Mayors in the
State. He is self-made man, and
makes a very good Mayor. Al
though the writer has been in Nor
gantown but a few weeks, he has not
neglected to call upon Hon. Marshall
Hagans, the brainy leader on the
republican side in the last legisla-
ture. We found him pleasant and
agreeable, as of old, and enjoyed a
very interesting discussion of the
political questions of National and
State politics. He is well known
throughout the State, and has many
warm admirers throughout the State
who would be pleased to have him rep
resent the State in the U. S. Senate, OF
nominated for Governor next year
Cadets Raymond Duvall and
Champion Byrnes are getting on
quite nicely, and look very hand
some in their pretty grey uniforms
and brass buttons, They are well up
in the tactics and drill like old vets
still this does not exempt them from
the usual title of honor: Rats 2
Champion is recognized as authority
in base ball and mite society affairs
l cannot close this letter without
a toast to the Morgantown ladies
Here's to the lassies of Morgantown
With faces and forms of the prettiest
kinds, eyes bright and tender, teeth
white as pearls, deportmsnt digni
fed, friendship true-long may they
live, to bless mankind and to embel
! lish their homes.
II 9 GRANr PlTzFR
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1887-10-08
The Fiffieth Congress.

Upon the first Monday of Deem
Der, the 9TH day of that month, the
Fiftieth Congress will assemble, ac-
cording to law.
Among it's first serious business
will be the selection of Speaker.
1t will doubtless choose John G.
Carlisle, of Kentucky.
The legality of Mr.. Carlisle's cleo
ton to this Congress has been con-
tested, but his attorneys considered
the case against him so weak that
they took no testimony.
After Mr.. Carlisle is elected
Speaker, he will call to the chair
Hon. VIM. d. Kelley, of Pennsylva-
mia, and ask him to appoint com
mittee to investigate his election
As Mr.. Kelley is republican, an
ultra Protectionist and the oldest
member of the House, this will
probably be satisfactory to the coun-
try.
After all this is settled, then will
come the great struggle as to the re-
duction of the war taxes. We are
prepared TO state schat the position
of the democratic party mil be on
that
It will ask that the Internal Reven-
ne tax on whisky be maintained. 1t
will ask that the Internal Revenue
tax on tobacco, except as to cigars,
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1887-10-08

one expected her death. She arose
in the morning as usual and dressed
herself. Shortly after. she complain
ed of feeling badly and lay down on
her bed In a few minutes life was
extinct. She was in her nth year,
and had lived fifty-iive years in
blissfuI wedlock. This estimable
lady was for more than City years a
member of the Episcopal Church.
Mrs. John d. Sutton. of Braxton
county, went to stable to look af
ter hen when she discovered a huge
rattlesnake coiled up near the nest.
She called Miss Mary Wilson, and
after briefly considering the situa
tion they concluded to make the at
tack with rocks. The plan had no
effect other than TO cause his snake
ship to make a retreat through a
crack in the building. Mrs. Sutton
ran around the building, and just as
the reptile was about to make its es-
cape under the barn floor, picked up
clapboard. and putting one end on
the snakes neck, held him while
Miss Wilson dispatched it with
piece of rail. The snake was yellow
and measured four feet
Information from Harrisville,
Richie county says that Mrs. Enoeh
Riggs, wife of an enterprising and
prosperous farmer, living near Mole
Hill, that county, has been suffering
with general debility for almost
year, and on last Tuesday morning
she sent those of her children that
could walk, five in number. out
among the neighbors, and as her
husband was absent from the house,
it left Mrs. Riggs and her six months
old babe alone She at once procur-
ed some new muslin that was in The
house and made a rope with which
she hung herself to a rafter and was
found dead by her husband at noon.
She stood ON n chair and adjusted
the moose and then jumped off The
baby was found asleep on the bed
Mrs. Riggs attended the fair at
Pennsboro last week, and those ac-
quainte6 with her said that she APP
peared to be in depressed spirits
Shewas the daughter of Noah James,
who committed suicide near Long
Run, Doddridge county, about ten
years ago.
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who struck billy Patterson?

1t is very easy to demonstrate
that the farmers are the class of
people most interested in the condi-
ton of our public roads, but it would
be very difficult to explain why they
are at the same time the most indif-
ferent.
The producer is always interested
in being near the consumer. A
handy market is the first considera-
ton in every business. Thus the
farmer is interested in drawing
around him a population. Every
blacksmith, carpenter, mechanic or
artisan of every character, that may
be established within his market is
to the farmer a direct personnel adj
vantage. Railroads are important
agencies of communication which
bring the farmer closer to market,
but a multitude Of hungry mouths
in his neighborhood demanding from
him food is worth far more to him
than all the facilities he can have
to get to distant markets.
Now, the next best thing to home
market and to the farmer who is Sc
situated that he must carry his pro
duce to market, is 70 have good solid
roads which make it easy and
speedy for him at all seasons of the
the year. If he has neither homo
market or roads which give him easy
access to a distant market he is
doomed to poverty all the days o.
his life. No farmer can prosper un
der such conditions.
The farmers of Monongalia are
isolated. The population is thin
Not one of them can depend on ,
home market. Every farmer mus
carry his produce to the county sea
to sell. The one great necessity o
the Monongalia farmer is an easy
solid road.
We must have better roads in thi
county or we must despair of hav
ing an increase of population or ;
higher prosperity among our farm
ing population.
We have heretofore maintained
that the first topic which should en-
gage the attention of the Farmer
| Union was that of improving TIL
public roads, and we still maintain
that until they solve this problem
all other enterprises will languisl
and fail.
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be removed.

be removed.
1t will ask that the tariff be re-
duced, moi horizontally" but as to
certain raw material and as to 9th
ers not wholly manufactured, which
enter into the daily consumption Of
our people as necessaries of life.
Upon this platform the democratic
party in the House of Represents
tives of the Fiftieth Congress will
fight. And they will spare no exer-
ton and hesitate at no sacrifice
which may secure its adoption
Enquirer.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1887-10-08
Traded Hats with the Presi-
dent.

One of the best jokes Of the season
occurred the other day at Soak
View" A venerable couple from
Jefferson county were visiting friends
near President Cleveland's country
residence in the District of Columbia.
Mr.. Cleveland is very sociable and
is pleased to have his neighbors
neighborly and to call frequently.
During the sojourn of our county
folks they went over to pay their re
spects to the farmer, President and
statesman. Three days after the
visit our Jefferson friend discovered
that he had exchanged hats with
the President and Mr.. Cleveland
was not aware'of the swap until the
Jeffersonian called again and assur-
ed the Nations Chief that he had
not come for office, but only to bring
back his hat. Grover shook his fat
sides with hearty laughter and de-
clared himself quite satisfied with
the exchange, as Mr.. AS hat was
quite new, while his own was decid
edly the worse for the wear during
his tramp through the Adirondacks.
After pleasant chat on the porch
the Jeffersonian babe the President a
hearty goodbye and left with Mr.
Cleveland's promise to be mindful
of his invitation to come to see him
in West Virginia. Either way the
Presidents hat got q good head in
IL
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1887-10-08

The Chicago Inter-Ocedn well
saws: "There are merchants who
do not advertise, but they cheerfully
pay 20 per cent more for storeroom
near by large advertiser in the
daily press. Every man who has a
store TO rent knows this to be true,
that a large advertiser increases the
rental and value Of every house in
that neighborhood. More than this,
he benefits the whole community, for
the towns or cities in these days
that do not advertise are dead, and
might just as well hang out their
mourning before the people do it for
them.''